Railway-bedding



v UNITED STATES RAIL wAY-BF.Diinrae. Y' L SBECIFICATION forming'part 0i Letters Patent'Nb. 381.125,'dated April 17,1883.

.T0 all whom/it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, FRANoIs X. GEORGET,

formerly of St. Louis, Missouri, now of Caind'en',New Jersey, have made a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Bedding, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip!y tion.

The improvement isrelated toy a railway bedding described in my application for Letters L l 'Same parts.

Patent of theUnited States therefor, tiled March 10, 1886, and numbered serially 19;,751, in l vrest upon longitudinal stringere A-that 1s,l

that in' both constructions the'line of railvis composed usually of long rai-ls and short railpieces `,alternately arranged, the long rails each being tixedv longitudinally midway in its length with its ends free to contract and expand from and toward the abutting fixed railpieces, and, Secondlyfthe stringers in cross- Section are preferably similar to the tiesl of the first construction. t

The improvement consists, partly, in the mode of combining the line of'railwith .the line ,of Supporting-Stringer, partly in the mode of joining abutting Stringers in the line of stringer, and partly in the means for connecting the t'wo lines of rail at the opposite sides, respectively, ofthe road-bed, and for more effectually staying the stringersin the road-bed, all substantially as is represented in the annexed` drawings, making part of .this Specification, in Which- Figure lis a plan of'a railway in which the improvement under considerationisembodied, portions ofthe long rails being broken away to exhibit the parts beneath. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig.'l. Fig. 3 isa vertical cross section, on an enlarged Scale, on the line 33 of Fig. 1.r Fig. 4,1is a View in perspective of one of the shoes used beneath the short rail-pieces and at the middle of the long rails. Fig. 5 is a view in perspective from beneath of one of the shoes iised at points 4between Ythe middle and the ends of a long rail. Fig. 6 isaa view in perspective upon an enlarged'scale, Showing the end of a long rail, a shorty rail-pece, the longitudinal Stringer,l and the shoes and tsh-,bars :used'in attaching the line of rail to thestringers and in j oiningthe short rail-piece with the abutting long rails. The view also l Applicationiiled August 2 0, 1857. Serial No. 247,470. (No model.)

includes the crossties, and

also theinterloclz- I ing plate yat the end of the Stringer. ',Flg. .7`1s

va vertical longitudinal section Showing'the abutting ends of two Stringenrs;` andv Fig.- 8,; is a vview in perspective Showing the ends of two abutting stringers," portions of thestrlnger ends being broken away to exhibit the por-` tions beyond.

The same letters of reference denote the t In the ypresent construction the railsFF2k opposite sides, respectively, ofthe track are rp connected by the rods J, Figs. 11,2, 3,6, and the .beams N, the rods beingY connected ywith thesti'ingers at the upper` partl thereof, and

. the beamsib'eingfastened to the under side of :the stringers and extending crosswise vin the" road-bed. The beams are-preferably Tsh aped in cross-Section, and, as Shown inFig. 7, ,the flange n of the beam* maybe extended downwardfinto the road-bedfarther atsome points than at others. Suchy extension is shown at n at the middle of the Stringer-A, for afeatnre of the improved construction is fixing Lthe Stringers, as well as the rails .longltudinally midway inthe length of rthe Stringer and leav-y ing thetwo halvesof the Stringer free to expand and contract from and toward the middle point of the Stringer. Y To this end the Stringer A, Fig. 2, by means of the fish-bar G and g bolts, is', midwayin itsown length, fastened tothe rail F midway in the length of the rail, and directly beneath its point of connectlon with the rail the Stringer is provided with the beam N, hav-ing they v.iange n. 'I he next Stringer, A5, Figp2, in the line of stringersis, midway in its length, fastened to the Short rail-piece F2.' n y The movement of the Stringer A in expanding isindicated by the arrows fr, and the move! ment of the Stringer A5 bythearrows x. The movement ofthe rail F in expanding is indif cated by the arrows x2, and of the rail 5 F15" by the arrow Thus each rail and each Stringer Y -dalla can expand and contractfrom its middle point roo without interfering with the expansion and contraction of the other parts, and the shbars G', used at points between the middle and the ends of the rail, are constructed substantially as shown in Fig. 6, to permit of the independent movement referred to. bar G2, Fig. 6, and its shoe are similar to those used at the middle of the long rails.

In Fig. 2 the rail F is shown supported upon a middle Stringer and the ends of two abutting stringers. This arrangement can be modified as follows: In the place of using 'a middle strin'ger, the two strin gers, which, respectively, are arranged centrally beneath the short railpieces, F2, are extended to nearly meet beneath the center of the long rail between the two short railpieces. In either construction a continuous support is provided for the line of rail.

of Stringer. Y The bolt-holes a in t-he plates aa are elongated to provide for the expansion and contraction of the metal. The channel-bar D in the stringers is perforated or cut away at d, to enable the bolts (not shown) used in fastening the plates a a together to be inserted in Thel tish'- place. The interlocking plates a a may be attached to the channel-bars D instead of to the bottom plates, B. This ,isdesirable when the stringers are made without a bottom plate. The plates a a also may be attached to the side plates of the stringers.

I claim- 1. The combination of the line of rail consisting of the long rails and the short railpieces alternately arranged with the supporting-stringers, said long rails and said stringers each being fastened at its middle, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a line of rail, of the long rail-sections, the fixed rail-piece F, and the supporting-Stringer, said stringer being fixed longitudinally at the middle to the bedding, and being free to expand and contract from its middle to its ends, substantially as described. Y

3. The combination, in a line of rail,.of the fixed railpiece F2, the abutting long rails, and the supporting-Stringer, said Stringer being fixed longitudinally at its middle to the bedding, and being free to expand and contract from its middle to its ends, and being attached to said rail-piece and supportingthe rail-piece, and also the ends of the adjoining long rails, substantially as described.

4. The longitudinab stringers fixed each midway in its length to a rail or railpiece above, and alsoin the bedding beneath, substantially as described.

' FRANQOIS X. GEORGET.

W'itnesses: l

F. C. ROBERTS, F. W. RHoADns. 

